People of the Revolution and the USSR
- Karen Nersesovich Brutents Карен Нерсесович Брутенц The International Department theorist who designed Soviet Third World policy under Brezhnev
- Yuri Fyodorovich Orlov Юрий Фёдорович Орлов The physicist who held the Kremlin to the Helsinki human-rights promises it signed
- Vadim Valentinovich Zagladin Вадим Валентинович Загладин A Brezhnev favorite who became the Soviet face of dialogue with Eurocommunism
- Vadim Andreyevich Medvedev Вадим Андреевич Медведев The last ideology secretary who dismantled ideology opened the spetskhran and abolished party orthodoxy
- Richard Ivanovich Kosolapov Ричард Иванович Косолапов Principal architect of the Brezhnev-era 'developed socialism' doctrine
- Stepan Karapetovich Pogosyan Ստեփան Կարապետի Պողոսյան The last leader of Armenia's Communist Party before the Soviet collapse
- Alexander Sergeyevich Dzasokhov Александр Сергеевич Дзасохов A politician who linked internationalism with regional rule
- Vasily Georgievich Zakharov Василий Георгиевич Захаров Propaganda-trained culture minister who executed glasnost-era cultural liberalization
- Juozas Juozovich Jermalavičius Juozas Jermalavičius Ideology secretary of the pro-Moscow Lithuanian Communist Party who proclaimed the 'National Salvation Committee' in the Vilnius crackdown
- Vagan Grigoryevich Grigoryan Ваган Григорьевич Григорьян Armenian party functionary who managed the international communist movement in late Stalinism